Great stories about good people caught in difficult situations.

Seth and Ava Mysteries

The Seth and Ava Mysteries feature Seth O’Malley, a piano prodigy and retired police detective, and Ava, a talented forensic scientist, as they unravel complicated mysteries set against the landscape of the Western United States.

Tax Assassin

“I don’t care if you kill to get the money; you’re going to pay your taxes on this land,” tax agent, Paul Bradley said in 1913, only moments before his death. A hundred years later, Seth O’Malley’s old friend passes him a cold case - 4 unrelated murders in almost every medium sized city across the US. When murder-for-hire turns personal, Seth and Ava must find the tax assassin before he kills Ava.

The Carving Knife

Forty years after he stumbles upon the horrific mutilation of a team of U.S. Rangers in Vietnam, Seth O’Malley wanders into a cat-and-mouse game with a mutilating psychopath. After murdering and mutilating some of the best detectives in the country, the psychopath is looking to mutilate the big prize—Seth O’Malley.

Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Seth’s father figure and personal Lucifer is acting crazy. A day later, Seth learns that his mother wants him to find something that his biological father left at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital.

Standing in the lobby of the place that had restored him after two tours through the blood and muck of tunnels of Vietnam, Seth is drawn into a mystery that will take him through the meltdown of Reactor Four at Chernobyl to meet Russian Olympic marksmen and discover that a familiar demon is covering its tracks.